4-Year-Old Channels Kurt Russell's 'Miracle' Speech

I think everyone should lay off the dad and the son...At least he is spending time with his child and sharing his love of sports with him...I thought the video was adorable...You go dad..

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Thank God there are some people out there with some common sense still. Anybody who would have something bad to say about this has way to much time on their hands. He's just being a kid. He will probably end up being one of the more intelligent kids in his class when he gets to be school age. He's adorable and whoever has something to say about this should just shut up and go get a life.

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And for the record, yabbi, thats ridiculous.

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I don't understand why people would get so angry about a little boy reciting a speech from a movie when little girls are constantly being posted singing songs of popular artists. The lyrics are not necessarily age appropriate either and they are spending a great deal of time practicing the song over and over again. I think we have a double standard here.

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I think people are just jealous because their kids of the same age probably can't recite a full sentence. I think this kid did an awesome job! KUDOS to the dad for having such a passion and for passing it on to his kid. Too many parents have NO involvement with their kids. Again, KUDOS to dad.

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I don't think it is that big a deal to cause such a fuss. How many kids sit in front of a TV watching the same movie repeatedly .... plenty.

My wife read to our children every night before bed, sometimes for an hour or more. By the time our oldest was 2 years old he could recite (from memory) 75 childrens books & 10+ poems of over 50 lines each. Everyone swore he could read but in fact he just has a marvelous memory. He could also recite every line of dialogue and sing every song from the movie "The Music Man" as well as a few other movies.

Young children have an amazing ability to learn. I mean just think, they learn their native language in just a few short years while developing motor skills and social skills at the same time. My take is that our propensity to learn is at its peak on the day we are born, from that day on it gets progressively harder to learn.

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We want our kids to be smart, and when they do, we have a problem.
My grands sing along with noggin when wathching, and sing it when the TV's off. This is only training their minds to be able to retain what they've heard. Like school lessons.

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There is so much more going on in life than to make anything out of this cute little boy reciting a speech. It is cute and endearing.

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BEAUTIFUL lol

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I think it is simple, well done and not harmful? Why are so many people so wrapped up in their personal nonsense? This is a young boy who has the temerity to stand before millions and speak--I'm an adult and am sure can never do what this young child has. This is good practice for this young child for his future- he can become a great orator and / or politician, teacher, actor, whatever, don't attack his parents' attempts at making their child more brighter than yours... my opinion!

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Glad to see the bulk of the people here think the naysayers are oh so judgmental and RIDICULOUS. But I think we've all learned in life...there are always a segment of people who have a criticism about everything. When I helped spearhead a community-funded, volunteer-built playground, we had people irately calling us and saying we should be ashamed of ourselves because we should be using our money and time to build homes in third world countries! And my point back to them was...who are you to judge the charitable choices we make and, how can you assume we are not doing that sort of charity work when we're not working on the playground? On a similar note...how can we assume this kid isn't "studying science or literature" in addition to this? It's just a bit more fun for Grandma to see him reciting this speech than some science text, so give the dad a break for posting it! And I agree with downema1160 -- this dad has helped nurture great memorization skills for future study. I'm an education-oriented person -- I have a PhD in psychology and I don't have a problem with this at all -- this kid watched 'Miracle' 150 times, while others have watched Sesame Street or read "Good-bye Moon" that many times and probably can recite portions word for word too. Children are all about repetition and memorization -- pick up any child development text and you'll realize -- it's what kids are oriented to do and is part of the natural process of brain development -- this is not a bad thing people! And while we're on the topic of memorization...how much memorization do well-intentioned parents make their kids do in the name of religion? The Lord's Prayer, Apostle's Creed, portions of the Torah? Nobody seems to have a problem with that. And this "Miracle" speech is pretty uplifting -- the message is about hard work, persistence, believing in yourself in the face of adversity -- not a bad message for the little guy to retain. I feel chagrined even giving the critics this much of my time to defend this child and father -- we should just let it go in one ear and out the other until they have their next point of outrage to move onto. And PS -- the video was great -- very entertaining. The kids' inflections and facial expressions imitating Kurt Russell -- priceless!

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What about the Karl Malden version? He made the original "Miracle" movie.

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All the unrest in the world, and people are getting bent over this?? I think that little boy is absolutely adorable, and a smart kid too boot! GET LIVES PEOPLE!!

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I think he is a cutie, what makes people think that his dad was just sitting there drilling him every day to learn this? Just think kids are so smart if his dad played it over 150 times, the kid probably just memorized it on his own. Great Job Dad!/son either way I think it was great (screw-emm) LOL

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Proof that one of Saint Louis' newspaper columnists is right, people do suffer from Compulsive Outrage Disorder, especially on the internet. If your kid is going to memorize a speech from a movie, at least it's an inspirational one. For all the whiners complaining that he should be studying science or literature: how many of your kids know 100% of the words to some vile rap song? How many of your kids know the dramatic dialogue in the scene of an action movie right before the hero shoots the villain in the face? There are many thinks in our world to be outraged about. This is not one of them...

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He is an absolute sweetheart. "Screw em" I loved it good job.

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Some people will make a big deal out of anything. This was obviously something this dad was passionate about and he wanted to share that with his son. It doesn't mean anything. You can't honestly say that this will result in him working in Burger King or any other ridiculous remark that has been made. It's just a cute video.

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When my son was that age he knew all the NASCAR drivers, their numbers and their sponors. It was so cute. My son graduated high school salutatorian of his class and finished colleged in 3 years. What narrow minded critics aren't seeing here is Josh is very intelligent. Learning takes a certain skill or ability, Josh has shown he has it. Just because it isn't literature doesn't make it any less of an accomplishment. Josh's dad is going to have lots to proud of!

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Dang! He even has the same suit on. I'm pumped to go skating.

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no what a lame excuse for a news report.

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